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jWalterWeatherman

Seamless printing to the terminal (stdout) and logging to a io.Writer (file) thats as easy to use as fmt.Println.

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JWW is primarily a wrapper around the excellent standard log library. It provides a few advantages over using the standard log library alone.

  1. Ready to go out of the box.
  2. One library for both printing to the terminal and logging (to files).
  3. Really easy to log to either a temp file or a file you specify.

I really wanted a very straightforward library that could seamlessly do the following things.

  1. Replace all the println, printf, etc statements thoughout my code with something more useful
  2. Allow the user to easily control what levels are printed to stdout
  3. Allow the user to easily control what levels are logged
  4. Provide an easy mechanism (like fmt.Println) to print info to the user which can be easily logged as well
  5. Due to 2 & 3 provide easy verbose mode for output and logs
  6. Not have any unnecessary initialization cruft. Just use it.

Usage

Step 1. Use it

Put calls throughout your source based on type of feedback. No initialization or setup needs to happen. Just start calling things.

Available Loggers are:

  • TRACE
  • DEBUG
  • INFO
  • WARN
  • ERROR
  • CRITICAL
  • FATAL

These each are loggers based on the log standard library and follow the standard usage. Eg.

    import (
        jww "github.com/spf13/jwalterweatherman"
    )

    ...

    if err != nil {

        // This is a pretty serious error and the user should know about
        // it. It will be printed to the terminal as well as logged under the
        // default thresholds.

        jww.ERROR.Println(err)
    }

    if err2 != nil {
        // This error isnt going to materially change the behavior of the
        // application, but its something that may not be what the user
        // expects. Under the default thresholds, Warn will be logged, but
        // not printed to the terminal. 

        jww.WARN.Println(err2)
    }

    // Information thats relevant to whats happening, but not very
    // important for the user. Under the default thresholds this will be
    // discarded.

    jww.INFO.Printf("information %q", response)

NOTE: You can also use the library in a non-global setting by creating an instance of a Notebook:

notepad = jww.NewNotepad(jww.LevelInfo, jww.LevelTrace, os.Stdout, ioutil.Discard, "", log.Ldate|log.Ltime)
notepad.WARN.Println("Some warning"")

Why 7 levels?

Maybe you think that 7 levels are too much for any application... and you are probably correct. Just because there are seven levels doesnt mean that you should be using all 7 levels. Pick the right set for your needs. Remember they only have to mean something to your project.

Step 2. Optionally configure JWW

Under the default thresholds :

  • Debug, Trace & Info goto /dev/null
  • Warn and above is logged (when a log file/io.Writer is provided)
  • Error and above is printed to the terminal (stdout)

Changing the thresholds

The threshold can be changed at any time, but will only affect calls that execute after the change was made.

This is very useful if your application has a verbose mode. Of course you can decide what verbose means to you or even have multiple levels of verbosity.

    import (
        jww "github.com/spf13/jwalterweatherman"
    )

    if Verbose {
        jww.SetLogThreshold(jww.LevelTrace)
        jww.SetStdoutThreshold(jww.LevelInfo)
    }

Note that JWW's own internal output uses log levels as well, so set the log level before making any other calls if you want to see what it's up to.

Setting a log file

JWW can log to any io.Writer:


    jww.SetLogOutput(customWriter) 

More information

This is an early release. Ive been using it for a while and this is the third interface Ive tried. I like this one pretty well, but no guarantees that it wont change a bit.

I wrote this for use in hugo. If you are looking for a static website engine thats super fast please checkout Hugo.